When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.

As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.

I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.

Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns